My favorite “popular” song with an irregular time signature is “The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden. Very original.

But my favorite is “#First Circle” by Pat Metheny. Just challenge your friends to figure out the time signature on that one and sit back to watch them be frustrated for an hour. Very very deceptively written piece.

My dad once heard one of my compositions, and trying to be helpful, told me I should try writing some pretty music for a change. I wrote a menuet in 3½ / 4. Interestingly, he was much more receptive to odd meters than odd harmony.

The odd meter music is quite common in Indian music, especially South Indian Classical music. It has found its way into film music as well.

Rudolf: South Indian music has lot of 3 1/2 and 2 1/2 beats. Here is one song, which has a 3 1/2 beat and the composer confuses us more by moving the starting point off the beathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCMi_QEb_9E